Picture Freedom : : Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century / / Jasmine Nichole Cobb.

In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self-possession. People pictured in these early photographs used portraiture to seize control over representation of the free Black body and reimagine Black visu...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:America and the Long 19th Century ; 20
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 51 black and white illustrations, 20 Illustrations, color
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